Example collocations logo

Promises in sentence

1430 examples of Promises in a sentence

Mia Farrow gives one of her best performances as Cecilia, a Depression-era waitress with her head in the clouds who gets dumped on over and over; after a miraculous situation comes her way and promises a better life, she has to choose between reality and fantasy...although some outcomes are predestined.
The most frustrating feature of this film is that it promises a memorable journey within the first ten minutes and then ignores it, ignore us it cheated us.
The conceit of setting it in a ghetto with an all-black cast promises an interesting variation on your basic "revenge from beyond the grave" scenario, but beyond the music and fashions it's still a pretty clichéd film.
She says he can have the money if he promises to fix a basketball game that has been bet on, so even more money can be won.
I rather enjoyed the nihilistic tone, and there are moment that you think it MAY get better, sadly like empty promises that never come through, it doesn't.
Lemmon's shear repetition of wanting to get everyone's phone number and address is hysterical, because through his fatigue in trying to cope with one problem after another in The Big Apple, he still finds the strength to take down everyone's name and number, and promises to retaliate at a later point in time.
So even though a cast this good promises something epic, it hardly delivers.
York promises he will take him to hang.
Making the promises is always something for everyone to keep, Carter doesn't back out or down to anything.
The young lady, Ashley, detests meeting Griffin in hotel rooms but has fallen for Griffin's lying promises.
Some of the musical numbers are fun ("Turkey Lurkey Time" from "Promises, Promises"; the funny All About Eve-ish scene with Sondheim's "I'm Still Here;" the Todd Rundgren song at the end).
All those unsuspecting patrons sitting in cars, gazing carelessly ahead as an armed maniac, cloaked in darkness crawls around the lot looking for that next kill... Sounds like a good idea - so why couldn't this "The Drive-in Massacre" just structure itself in an even moderately entertaining way and deliver what it promises?
Siddharth, in turn, promises to help Rahul become an independent businessman in the corporate world.
It is a film that promises to offend on every level but is not mean-spirited in its delivery.
The opening shot of "Journey into Fear" is riveting, pure Welles, and promises of great things to come...but they never do, until perhaps the final ten minutes of the motion picture.
During all the time,during all that childish love stories you actually expect the explanation of that coming back to life scene and it is explained actually in the end when Recep promises Deli Omer to bring alive his dead wife.
However, this movie promises to showcase the "terrifying...danger" of the new world, and last time i checked, overlong shots of nothing happening coupled with occasional histrionic shrieking do not a good film make.
She promises her father she won't be "Cutting Class" while he goes on a hunting trip, or have brawny basketball boyfriend Brad Pitt (as Dwight Ingalls) sleep over.
An unrated version is available that seemingly promises to provide additional footage of the ardent romantic actions shared by the mismatched lovers.
The movie promises to keep you in suspense until the very end, however, half way through you realize that you are no longer interested in finding out what's going on.
I didn't know this film-maker, Reygadas promises much to me now.
Not only do they prove to him that they are MUCH more manly but they threaten him until he promises to return to the present day and correct this silly stereotyped cowboy hero image--allowing the bad guys to win and revealing to America that cowboys like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were just pretty boys who NEVER would have survived the rigors of Western life!
Species 1, 2, and 3 gave out promises: 1 was subtle, 2 was slightly intense, 3 was hardcore and extreme.
This one's the pits: the title promises nudity and scares (or at least diabolism) - it provides the former in spades, though none of it is erotic, but the latter is only present, if so it can be called, in some silly late-night rituals with nude dancing en masse of old and young witches alike!
His parents decide to send him to Driftwood, a camp leaded by Captain Kennedy (Diamond Dallas Page) that promises to transform dysfunctional boys in men.
A troma movie usually promises gross gags, nasty jokes, and toilet humor throughout but this one only came through on the last one.
It certainly seems that the producers are trying to feed off of their first born in this genre, "What the Bleep Do We Know..., Like Bleep it promises existentialist views of rather unexplained events and experiences in our life with a spin that was thought provoking and entertaining.
Her boss and friend Stephen helps Eddie to leave the prison on probation, Eddie promises to have a straight life and immediately get married with Joan.
The beginning promises a lot, but right after the first five minutes, the movie becomes SLOOOWWW!
It's a simple storyline, and a simply delivered film, but it promises something, and delivers.
BackNext